Illustration and graphics from Manchester, England.

Portfolio

Card for Stacey

Here’s a print I designed for my friend Stacey to celebrate her 40th birthday. ‘Stacey’ apparently means ‘fruitful’ and ‘resurrection’, which inspired some of the imagery. She loves a good rave too, hence the speakers in the butterfly’s wings.

Flow Windows

Flow is a design agency specialising in animation and motion graphics. They commissioned me to create these stained-glass style designs to decorate the windows of their Manchester studio.

Each design was based on a stage of Flow's creative process.

The designs were printed onto vinyl and applied to the inside of the windows.

Each design was based on a stage of Flow's creative process.

Thinking of Home

I was asked by architecture and landscape design agency Levitt Bernstein to design a postcard to be auctioned to raise money to help combat Manchester’s homelessness problem. The auction, in partnership with Shelter, featured pieces from the city’s famous faces, creative industries and those who have lived experience of homelessness. The theme was “What does ‘home’ mean to you?”.

My design features abstracted Mancunian imagery which spells out the word ‘Home’.

This Is The Place Book

Conceived in the wake of the Manchester Arena attacks, the book 'This Is The Place. Choose Love, Manchester' takes the lines from Tony Walsh’s inspirational poem about the city and sets them to unique artworks, illustrations and photography from over 60 creative individuals and agencies.

I was invited to contribute an illustration based on the line 'Our Inventions Are Legends'. The design combines some of Manchester's lesser-known inventions with the more famous ones.

Westmore and More!

This is a cover for the science fiction novel 'Westmore and More!', by author Jud Widing.

Burgess Re-Covered

As part of the 2017 Design Manchester festival, the Anthony Burgess Foundation hosted an exhibition which saw designers from around the world share new design ideas for classic novels.

I was invited to participate and chose the 1961 novel 'One Hand Clapping'. The novel was intended as an indictment of what Burgess saw as the degradation of contemporary Western education and culture.

PopUp Bikes Jumble Sale Graphic

A graphic to promote PopUp Bikes' bike jumble sale, to be used on social media.

Manchester Mural for Manchester Climbing Centre

Manchester Climbing Centre commissioned me to create a mural for one of the walls in their West Gorton-based centre, which is in a Victorian church. The mural depicts some of Manchester's most famous landmark buildings being scaled by climbers.

Knowsley A-Level Academy Animation

Your Type of Christmas

In 2016 the creative agency The Neighbourhood asked me to participate in their Christmas campaign ‘Your Type of Christmas’. The idea was to illustrate a gift chosen from a list compiled by the public and other agencies. My gift was a ‘Robot Raconteur’. Some of the designs were then displayed on a rooftop billboard.

San Carlo Mural

San Carlo is an established Italian restaurant brand with leading restaurants in Bristol, Leicester, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and London. I was asked to create a wall graphic for the boardroom of their new Manchester headquarters.

The brief was to incorporate 6 of their prestigious restaurant sites and a splash of Italian-flavoured street activity.

Liverpool University Student Safety

Mocha commissioned me to create a style and assets for an animation for Liverpool University to promote student safety by preventing hate crimes. The brief was to illustrate ‘fruit salad’ characters to represent diversity, although the animation was ultimately shelved.

Laureate Animation

Mocha commissioned me to create assets for an animation to promote Laureate’s postgraduate masters’ loans for students on the University of Liverpool’s online programmes.

Top 5 reasons to study International Business, Finance and Economics at Manchester

Top 5 reasons to study IT Management for Business at Manchester

Top 5 reasons to study Management at Manchester

IAEA Animation

I was commissioned by animator Lovejimbo to storyboard, design, illustrate and direct an animation for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to describe the nuclear fuel cycle.

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Zen Office Mural and Brochures

Working with Manchester agency Creative Spark I was asked to create illustrations as part of the brand refresh for Zen Office. These were used for product brochures and promotional material, and for a mural in the company's reception area.

Alphadoodlebet

Meanderings Exhibition

'Meanderings' is a collaboration between myself and creative coder Dan Hett. I designed sets of tiles which Dan fed through some maze generation algorithms, to create create twisting, impossibly dense, hyper-intricate designs that we called 'Meanderings'.

This selection of designs represent the first output from the collaboration, and was exhibited at Nexus in Manchester’s Norther Quarter during April 2017.

Remixed

Manchester hiphop group 'The Mouse Outfit' asked me to design the ‘Remixed’ version of their debut album (Escape Music), for which I also designed the cover.

Manchester Worker Bee

The worker bee was adopted as a motif for Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, at a time when Manchester was taking a leading role in new forms of mass production. The bee denotes Mancunians’ hard work during this era and Manchester being a hive of activity in the 19th century.

In September 2015, Salford-based printing studio one69A held a competition to invite the artists, designers and craftspeople of Manchester to design a worker bee to represent themselves or their studio.

This was my entry, which was eventually made into a t-shirts, postcards and a limited edition of 25 prints, featuring metallic gold ink.

I Can Destroy

Cover artwork for virtuoso rock and metal guitarist Paul Gilbert, for his album 'I Can Destroy'.

Dinosaurs

Lazerian Gerald Project

This is my contribution to Lazerian Studios' "Gerald" Project. More than 100 of the world’s most exciting and influential artists, illustrators have taken a paper dog and made it their own as part of the two-year project, culminating in a book launch and exhibition that took place at New York Design Week in May 2013.

Each dog is available to buy as a limited edition paper kit and all the dogs will feature in a limited edition, large format hardback book.

Choppers and Planes Tattoos

This is a set of kids' temporary tattoos that I designed for Gumtoo, based on helicopters and planes.

Electrik Moth

Illustration of a mechanical Death's-head Hawkmoth, created for an exhibition of personal work at Electrik bar in Manchester.

Manchester World's Fair

I submitted this piece to an exhibition called 'Manchester World's Fair' at Vault NQ in Manchester, which was based on the theme of the future of the planet. I decided to make mine locally relevant, and I based my idea on an article I'd seen about how helicopters and a network of heliports were once seen as the future of public transport in Greater Manchester.

Patterns

Freshtival Tags

Working with agency Collect Creative, I created a set of illustrated luggage tags featuring architecture and scenery from 5 different cities; New York, Barcelona, Milan, Amsterdam and Paris. These were displayed in the window of Bags Etc in Salford's Lowry Outlet Mall, as part of Freshtival, an event to celebrate 10 years of the Fresh Awards.

Each tag was paired with a product from the shop. In the few days that the display was present, sales of those particular products increased.

Client: Collect Creative

Versus Playing Cards

The Versus playing cards project is a collection of 52 illustrations by 13 artists, all presented as a box of playing cards. I illustrated the Ace cards.

My idea for the Aces was to work with the shapes of the 4 very recognisable suits and fill them with fantastical cities; in space, under water, on land and under the ground.

The print is on sale at the their online shop, and all profits go the charity Play360, which designs and builds playgrounds in the developing world.

Armstrong Buildings

Working with agency Collect Creative, I created a set of buildings and other elements. These were to be assembled for marketing literature for the client, Armstrong, a company which deals with the construction, design and maintenance of old and new buildings.

10x10: Eureka!

This is a collaboration with animator Tom Mathieson. It was created for the '10x10' exhibition, which launched the Design Manchester 2014 festival, the theme of which was 'The Science of Imagination'.

I decided to create a fantastical portrayal of how an idea is generated, from the initial absorbtion of exterior influences, through to the 'Eureka!' moment, when a metaphorical lightbulb is illuminated.

Industrial Consultants Stand

This is a pair of designs created to decorate an exhibition stand for Industrial Consultants' 2 vinyl brands, r.tape and iSee2.

Client: Industrial Consultants

Westinghouse Solar UK Rooftops

Working with agency LoafCreative, I illustrated backgrounds and objects for an interactive HTML5 parallax website for solar energy company Westinghouse Solar. The microsite takes the user on a dynamic journey through space, past our sun, and down to earth, whilst providing information on the benefits of solar power, exploring how it can help to reduce energy bills and protect the environment.

Chillingo Mural

Chillingo, a division of Electronic Arts, is 'the leading indie games publisher for mobile'. They commissioned me to create a playful creative mural for their offices in Macclesfield.

Client: Chillingo

It's a Shape Christmas

Manchester design agency Shape invited me to participate in their Christmas project, "It's a Shape Christmas", which is an online advent calendar which collates the talents of 25 illustrators and designers from around the globe. Each creative is assigned a shape on which to base their design. I was assigned a hexagon.